THE LA RAZA CRIME TIDAL WAVE - “These figures do not attempt to allege that foreign
nationals in the country illegally commit more
crimes than other groups,” the report states. “It
simply identifies thousands of crimes that should
not have occurred and thousands of victims that
should not have been victimized because the
perpetrator should not be here.”
CHARLOTTE CUTHBERTSON

Health-care law will add $340 billion to deficit, new study finds

President Obama’s landmark health-care initiative, long touted as a means to control costs, will actually add more than $340 billion to the nation’s budget woes over the next decade, according to a new study by a Republican member of the board that oversees Medicare financing.
The study is set to be released Tuesday by Charles Blahous, a conservative policy analyst whom Obama approved in 2010 as the GOP trustee for Medicare and Social Security. His analysis challenges the conventional wisdom that the health-care law, which calls for an expensive expansion of coverage for the uninsured beginning in 2014, will nonetheless reduce deficits by raising taxes and cutting payments to Medicare providers.
The 2010 law does generate both savings and revenue. But much of that money will flow into the Medicare hospitalization trust fund — and, under law, the money must be used to pay years of additional benefits to those who are already insured. That means those savings would not be available to pay for expanding coverage for the uninsured.
“Does the health-care act worsen the deficit? The answer, I think, is clearly that it does,” Blahous, a senior research fellow at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center, said in an interview. “If one asserts that this law extends the solvency of Medicare, then one is affirming that this law adds to the deficit. Because the expansion of the Medicare trust fund and the creation of the new subsidies together create more spending than existed under prior law.”
Administration officials dismissed the study, arguing that it departs from bipartisan budget rules used to measure every major deficit-reduction effort for the past four decades — including the blueprint offered last month by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).
“Opponents of reform are using ‘new math’ while they attempt to refight the political battles of the past,” a White House budget official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because the report was not publicly available. “The fact of the matter is, the Congressional Budget Office and independent experts concluded that the health-reform law will reduce the deficit. That was true the day the bill was signed into law, and it’s true today.”
Blahous acknowledged that his analysis departs from budget conventions, which, he said, make sense for the most part. He said that in this case, however, those rules do not fully illuminate the financial impact of the health-care law, since they permit what conservative critics have dubbed a “double counting” of proposed Medicare savings.
Medicare is financed in part through a trust fund that receives revenue from payroll taxes. Before Obama’s health-care act passed, the trust fund was projected to be drained by 2017 (later updated to 2016). Absent the health-care law, Blahous writes, Medicare would have been forced to enact a sharp reduction in benefit payments in the middle of this decade, or “other Medicare savings would have had to be found.”
Enter the health-care law, which provides about $575 billion in Medicare savings — enough to automatically extend the life of the trust fund through 2029, according to estimates at the time, and avoid a sharp cut in benefits.
But in cost estimates by the nonpartisan CBO, those savings also offset a dramatic expansion of Medicaid under the law, as well as new subsidies for uninsured people to purchase coverage.
CBO and Medicare actuaries acknowledge the double-counting issue. “In practice, the improved [trust fund] financing cannot be simultaneously used to finance other federal outlays (such as the coverage expansions) and to extend the trust fund, despite the appearance of this result from” traditional budget rules, Medicare actuary Rick Foster wrote last year.
And in 2010, the CBO wrote that, absent the Medicare savings, the law would increase deficits by $226 billion through 2019 — instead of decreasing them by the commonly cited $132 billion.
In arriving at his deficit figure of $340 billion, Blahous updates the numbers through 2021 and subtracts savings that would have come from another provision of the law: the CLASS Act, a long-term-care program that was supposed to have generated as much as $86 billion in new revenue through 2021. The administration acknowledged last year that the CLASS Act is unworkable and suspended efforts to implement it.
“This isn’t just a persnickety point about the intricacies of budget law,” Blahous said. “If Medicare were going insolvent in 2016, you’d better believe right now there would be more pressure on lawmakers to do something about it. . . . It’s essential that there be a full public understanding of the most economically significant federal law in years.”

FROM FAIRUS.org …… get on their free EMAILS for updates on how our government sells us out to the illegals for their corporate masters!

OBAMA’S CON GAME

Obama Health Care Plan Silent on Immigration Issues

Last week, President Obama attempted to kick-start the stalled health care debate by offering his own proposal to reform the U.S. health care system. While the White House states that the proposal “incorporates the work the House and the Senate have done and adds additional ideas from Republican members of Congress,” the president’s plan is more akin to a list of ideas rather than actual legislative text. (Proposal). Importantly, the White House proposal is completely silent with respect to the immigration-related issues FAIR and other groups had raised concerning the House and Senate-passed health care bills.

Immigration reformers took issue with the House-passed health care bill (H.R. 3962) because it: (1) waives the five-year waiting period for legal aliens with respect to the taxpayer-subsidized affordability credits created under the legislation and (2) contains a flawed verification process that would allow illegal aliens to fraudulently obtain benefits. (See FAIR’s Legislative Analysisof H.R. 3962). There were similar problems in the Senate bill (H.R. 3590; See also FAIR’s Legislative Analysisof H.R. 3590), although the Senate bill generally bars illegal aliens from participating in the “exchange” marketplace, while the House bill does not. (See FAIR President Dan Stein’s USA Today op-ed, November 2009). It is unclear as to how President Obama’s proposal would address these issues.

Unfortunately, last week’s bipartisan health care summit did not address any of these issues, and at this point, it remains uncertain as to how the health care debate will proceed. Stay tuned to FAIR for the latest on immigration and health care reform…

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PELOSI IS LONG AN ADVOCATE FOR OPEN BORDERS, AMNESTY, CHAIN MIGRATION. DO YOU THINK THIS IS BECAUSE SHE HAS LONG ILLEGALLY HIRED ILLEGALS AT HER $20 MILLION NAPA WINERY???

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Illegals Receiving Health Care…."But....( of course there is!)"

CNN INTERVIEW OF LYING LA RAZA PELOSI ON HEALTHCARE TO ILLEGALS

“If you’re in this country illegally, should you be able to get health care?” CNN’s John King asked Mrs. Pelosi.

These loopholes, Rep. Smith maintains, are “no accident.” He maintains that the proposed legislation, despite months of debate, still contains no mechanism for verifying if applicants are legal residents or not.

The Republican members of the Ways and Means Committee attempted to address this loophole by an amendment proposed by Congressman Dick Heller (R-Nevada) which would have required applicants for government provided or subsidized health care to demonstrate eligibility through the Income and Eligibility Verification System (IEVS) and the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) systems.

The Federal for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) believes the legislation is now purposefully self-contradictory in order to ensure that the millions of illegal Latinos will receive coverage. FAIR points out that while one provision of the proposed health care reform bill states illegal immigrants will not be eligible for benefits, the legislation remains without any system of verification for determining if a patient is a legal or illegal U. S. resident.

Moreover, Fair insists, the bill leaves open the possibility that if one citizen family member is eligible for benefits, then the entire family —including illegal immigrants — is also eligible for the benefits.

“At a time when the federal government is running trillion dollar deficits, and the projected costs of the proposed health care overhaul seem to grow with each passing day, the committee that writes our tax laws wants Americans to pay for the health care costs of illegal aliens,” says FAIR President Dan Stein. “Given the opportunity to close loopholes that would cost the public billions of dollars each year, Democrats on the committee unanimously rejected an amendment that would bar illegal aliens from a national health care program.”

The cost of treating illegal aliens amounts to nearly $11 billion a year, according to calculations done by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a non-profit group that opposes illegal immigration. And that cost is not expected to go away if a health insurance reform bill becomes law.

According to FAIR’s Director of Special Projects Jack Martin, illegal immigrants presently cost U. S. taxpayers $10.7 billion a year for health care. The numbers are contained in a report that FAIR plans to publish in the near future.

“The current health care bill is looking as if it is leaving a very large loophole for medical coverage being provided to illegal aliens,” Martin said.

So again, yes, the speaker of the House can say: "We've made no provision for Health Care for Illegal Aliens". But, is she in fact telling you the WHOLE truth or only half a truth. I am an independent voter and I, at this point, have my opinion. You be the judge for your own opinion.

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The politics of Healthcare Reform

from the AP -

"Immigration analyst James R. Edwards Jr. reported last week in National Review that "no health legislation on the table requires federal, state or local agencies -- or private institutions receiving federal funds -- to check the immigration status of health-program applicants, so some of the money distributed via Medicaid and tax credits inevitably would go to illegal aliens." Moreover, the Senate Finance Committee plan creates a preference for illegal aliens by exempting them from the mandate to buy insurance.

That's right. Lawabiding, uninsured Americans would be fined if they didn't submit to the ObamaCare prescription.

Lawbreaking bordercrossers and deportation fugitives would be spared.

For years, advocates of uncontrolled immigration have argued that illegals aren't getting free health care, and that even if they were, they'd not be draining government budgets. The fiscal crisis in California gives lie to those talking points. In March, the Associated Press reported that Sacramento and Contra Costa counties were slashing staff and closing clinics due to the prohibitive costs of providing nonemergency health services for illegals.

"The general situation there is being faced by nearly every health department across the country, and if not right now, shortly," Robert M. Pestronk of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, told the AP."

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ACCORDING TO SENATOR LAMAR SMITH OF TEXAS, WHEN CHALLENGING SO- CALLED “HOMELAND SECURITY = PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIPS” LA RAZA JANET NAPOLITANO, AS TO WHY OUR BORDERS ARE WIDE OPEN TO NARCOMEX, OBAMA HAS CUT ENFORCEMENT BY MORE THAN 60% IN ALL AREAS.

Obama soft on illegals enforcement

Arrests of illegal immigrant workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures released Wednesday. Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009.

The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.

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! YOU LIE! THE BELOW IS EXACTLY WHAT THE DEMS DO TO US EVERY DAY. THEY LIE ABOUT DEFENDED OUR BORDERS, JOBS, AND CULTURE, WHILE THEY CONTINUALLY PUT OUT INDUCEMENTS FOR MORE ILLEGALS TO CLIMB OUR BORDERS, AND HEAD FOR THE VOTING BOOTHS!

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“The president's straddling can work for the time being. But unless he wants to end up in the sawdust, acrobat Obama will eventually have to hop on one horse and lead the way. That would have to be the horse named "Enforcement First." CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

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“What's needed to discourage illegal immigration into the United States has been known for years: Enforce existing law.” ….. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

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But President Obama lit the fuse in February when he signed the massive expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). That law loosened eligibility requirements for legal immigrants and their children by watering down document and evidentiary standards – making it easy for individuals to use fake Social Security cards to apply for benefits with little to no chance of getting caught. In addition, Obama’s S-CHIP expansion revoked Medicaid application time limits that were part of the 1996 welfare reform law. Immigration activists see the provisions as first steps toward universal coverage for illegals.
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Congressman Brian Bilbray, along with 55 other Members of Congress, is urging the leaders of the United States House of Representatives to include a method of enforcement for benefits under any new plan of nationalized health care. The text of the letter follows:

September 15, 2009

The Honorable Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the House H-232 United States Capitol Washington, DC 20515

The Honorable John Boehner Office of the House Republican Leader H-204 United States Capitol Washington, DC 20515

Dear Madam Speaker and Republican Leader Boehner:

As discussion on health care reform continues, we urge you to include measures that will prevent illegal immigrants from receiving taxpayer-funded benefits in any health care reform bill considered by the House. While the House bill currently says illegal immigrants cannot get benefits, the statement is meaningless because the bill contains no verification mechanism to ensure that illegal immigrants will not receive benefits.

The non-partisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) recently issued some troubling information on the immigration-related provisions of the current health care bill, H.R. 3200. Specifically, the new CRS Report R40773, Treatment of Noncitizens in H.R. 3200, points out the following:

CRS states that H.R. 3200 "does not contain any restrictions on noncitzens—whether legally or illegally present, or in the United States temporarily or permanently—participating in the [taxpayer-subsidized Health Insurance] Exchange."

While section 142(a)(3) of H.R. 3200 states the responsibility of the Health Choices Commissioner to administer the "individual affordability credits under subtitle C of title II, including determination of eligibility for such credits," no specific enforcement mechanism is outlined in the bill.

CRS also notes that "there could be instances where some family members would meet the definition of an eligible individual for purposes of the credit, while other family members would not. For example, in a family consisting of a U.S. citizen married to an unauthorized alien and a U.S. citizen child, the U.S. citizen spouse and child could meet the criteria for being a credit-eligible individual, while the unauthorized alien spouse would not meet the criteria. H.R. 3200 does not expressly address how such a situation would be treated. Therefore, it appears that the Health Choices Commissioner would be responsible for determining how the credits would be administered in the case of mixed-status families."

Our constituents find these provisions unacceptable. The Pew Hispanic Center estimated that there are almost two million families in the United States where illegal immigrant parents have U.S.-born children, and even more mixed-status families exist. If H.R. 3200 becomes law in its current form, billions in taxpayer funds could go to those who are in our country illegally.

Most of our concerns could be easily addressed by requiring individuals applying for affordability credits to undergo citizenship verification using one of the existing programs used for various social service programs. We urge you to adopt language such as the Heller amendment (offered in the House Ways & Means Committee during the markup of H.R. 3200, July 16, 2009) or the Deal amendment (offered in the House Energy & Commerce Committee markup of H.R. 3200, July 31, 2009) in the final version of any health care reform legislation to close these costly, unnecessarily loopholes.

WHILE BARACK OBAMA GIVES HIMSELF A B+ (HIS BANKSTERS GAVE HIM THE GRADE) JUDICIAL WATCH’S GRADE IS A BIT MORE REALISTIC:

JUDICIAL WATCH.org

With trillion dollar bailouts, government-run healthcare, banks and car companies, ACORN corruption, attacks on conservative media, illegal alien amnesty, unprecedented and dangerous new rights for terrorists, perks for campaign donors—this is the Obama legacy—and we haven't even gotten through the first year of his presidency!

San Bernardino County spent nearly $64 million in state and federal money last year to provide welfare benefits to the American-born children of illegal immigrants.

Illegal immigrants aren't entitled to welfare. But their citizen children are.

Nationwide, one in three immigrant-headed households uses at least one major welfare program, compared with 19 percent of citizen households, according to the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that advocates immigration reduction.

In California, 192,660 citizen children are getting welfare checks passed through their illegal immigrant parents. That costs $546 million a year in state, federal and county funds, officials say.

Some lawmakers say it's an expense California can't afford as the state struggles to close a nearly $20 billion budget gap.

"We should never be giving benefits to people in this country illegally," said state Sen. Bob Dutton, R-Rancho Cucamonga.

County officials provided data from August 2009 to show the funding and number of American-born children of illegal immigrants receiving aid in the CalWORKs and food stamp programs.

Information for all of 2009 was not easily retrievable, officials said, but the August figures are an accurate reflection of a monthly total during the year.

The county's Transitional Assistance Department runs the CalWORKs program, which provides cash aid and services to needy families, as well as the food stamp program.

The maximum CalWORKs grant for a family of three in the county is $661 per month. The maximum amount of food stamp assistance that a family of three can get is $526 a month.

The American-born children of illegal immigrants made up 15.5 percent of the CalWORKs caseload and 6.5 percent of the food stamp caseload in the county last year.

About 15,000 citizen children of illegal immigrants in the county received either CalWORKs or food stamps in a typical month last year. More than 11,000 used both programs in an average month in 2009, according to county data.

In August, the county spent nearly $3.3 million for CalWORKs and about $2 million for food stamps for the American-born children of illegal immigrants. The two programs totaled nearly $64 million when multiplied over 12 months.

The county contributes roughly $1.7 million a year of its own funds to run the programs, officials say.

"This is a huge burden on our state," said Assemblyman Steve Knight, R-Palmdale, whose district includes Victorville and northwestern San Bernardino County. "Obviously, these kids are U.S. citizens and that's fine. But when you look at it, these parents should have never been here in the first place."

The welfare expenses don't count pregnancy-related services that were provided last year to about 2,350 illegal immigrant women in the county through Medi-Cal, a health-care program for low-income California residents.

The welfare costs also don't include the roughly $11 billion the state spends annually for education, unreimbursed health care and incarceration of illegal immigrant criminals, said Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation of American Immigration Reform, a Washington D.C.-based group that favors strict immigration limits.

"The American people are fed up with illegal aliens depleting our tax dollars by overrunning our schools, our hospitals and our welfare system," said Raymond Herrera, founder and president of We The People California's Crusader, a Claremont-based anti-illegal immigration group.

This month, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed a nearly 16 percent grant reduction to CalWORKs caseloads, a move that could save the state almost $590 million.

Dutton said the CalWORKs program has failed.

"I don't think it's done a good job," he said. "People are on it too long. They've become dependent. If the program doesn't work, you need to get rid of it and try something different."

There is a five-year time limit for adults receiving CalWORKs. But children are still entitled to their share of benefits after their parents are cut off.

There is no time limit for the food stamp program.

The county did not have data on the average length of time an illegal immigrant parent with an American-born child receives CalWORKs or food stamps.

Supporters of the CalWORKs program say the proposed cuts would have devastating consequences.

"What they're attempting to do is cripple the future prosperity of our community by denying legal benefits to these American-born children," said Gil Navarro, a member of the San Bernardino County board of education.

"You are creating havoc in the community because now people have to survive in a different way," said Navarro, who is running for a state assembly seat in the June Democratic primary against Assemblywoman Wilmer Amina Carter, D-Rialto. "Hungry people are forced to do things they may not normally do."

Not all illegal immigrants take advantage of public services like welfare that are available to their U.S.-born children.

Freddy Munguia, a 34-year-old illegal immigrant from Honduras, said he won't ask for public assistance for his 2- and 3-year-old American-born daughters.

"I don't want my kids to get any help from the government," said Munguia, a day laborer who came to this country four years ago. "Instead of helping the country, I'm taking away from it."

Critics of illegal immigration call the children "anchor babies" whose citizenship allows their illegal immigrant parents to gain a foothold in this country and receive welfare and other benefits for their kids.

"In some cases, people do come here with the intent of having children in this country because they believe it will work to their advantage," Mehlman said.

Others have a different view.

California could reap an economic boon worth $16 billion by legalizing its 1.8 million Latino illegal immigrant adults, helping fix the state's financial problems, according to a report released last week by the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration.

"Our immigrants are an asset economically, politically, religiously and culturally," said the Rev. Patricio Guillen, a retired Roman Catholic priest who is executive director of Libreria del Pueblo, a San Bernardino nonprofit that helps immigrants.

THE POPULATION OF NEVADA IS ALREADY 25% ILLEGAL, AND THEY’RE BREEDING FAST.

IN MEXICAN OCCUPIED GANGLAND OF LOS ANGELES, THE ILLEGALS COLLECT $50 MILLION IN WELFARE PER MONTH, AND 47% OF THOSE EMPLOYED ARE ILLEGALS.

TIME TO FIGHT FORYOUR COUNTRY?

LA RAZA… “THE RACE” THINKS GRINGOS ARE TOO FUCKING WEAK!

FROM JUDICIAL WATCH, get on their email list!

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No. Of Illegal Aliens On Welfare Doubles In Nevada

Last Updated: Tue, 11/03/2009 - 12:51pm

A relatively new federal program that allows illegal immigrants to use their American-born anchor babies to collect welfare for the entire family has expanded nationwide and nearly doubled in a western state that already spends hundreds of millions of dollars to provide undocumented residents with public services.

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF) was created by the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services a few years ago so that illegal aliens could get monthly welfare checks to help support the entire family. It is the only public assistance program where parents can apply in their children’s name as opposed to applying in their own. It also does not require parents to demonstrate that they are in the U.S. legally since most aren’t.

In Nevada alone, the TANF program’s caseload has grown 96% since the recession hit the state like an atomic bomb two years ago. A news report reveals that around 4,250 of the families receiving the benefit in Nevada have “mixed immigration status.”In other words, U.S. taxpayers are supporting thousands of illegal alien families because they have at least one anchor baby.

Nevada already blows a whopping $630 million a year to provide its rapidly growing illegal immigrant population with public services that should be reserved for legal U.S. residents. The Silver State spends $470 million annually to educate the children of illegal immigrants in public schools and an additional $45 million for limited English programs. Eighty five million goes to healthcare for illegal immigrants and $31 to incarcerate them.

Illegal aliens are also largely responsible for Nevada’s home foreclosure crisis, reportedly the nation’s worst. Around 5 million fraudulent mortgagesnationwide are in the hands of illegal aliens, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and it is no secret that a substantial chunk of them are in Nevada.

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From the Los Angeles Times
20% in Los Angeles County receive public aid

The figure matches the total at the height of the 2001-03 recession, and officials expect it to rise significantly.

By Garrett Therolf

February 22, 2009

One in five Los Angeles County residents -- nearly 2.2 million people -- are receiving public assistance payments or benefits, a level county officials say will rise significantly over the coming months as the fallout from the recession continues.

The percentage of people on county aid already equals the figure at the height of the 2001-03 recession and far exceeds the one in seven who needed help during the economic downturn in the early 1990s and the one in nine assisted in the collapse of the early 1980s.

The rise in welfare recipients in the county is the first sustained uptick since welfare reform under the Clinton administration imposed strict time limits on benefits in 1996.

County officials warn that tens of thousands of additional frustrated job seekers -- unemployment in the county currently stands at 9.5% -- are expected to seek aid to weather the persistent recession once their other benefits run out.

The total includes those receiving food stamps and general relief as well as other county-administered aid programs, such as in-home healthcare. The cost -- shouldered by the county, state and federal governments -- was $334 million a month by the end of last year, according to the latest report by the county's Department of Public Social Services.

The rising demand has left public assistance offices ill-equipped to deal with the growing multitude of indigent people. In some locations, lines routinely snake hundreds of feet outside entrances.

"We have the highest human service burden of any county in the country in sheer numbers," Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky said.

"Two million people is the size of some countries; that's how big our problem is," he said.

To have reached the point of receiving county aid, recipients usually have little left.

Qualifying for help most often means they already have run out of unemployment insurance and drained their bank accounts and other assets.

In other cases, low-wage workers or those whose hours have been cut can earn so little that they qualify for Medicaid or food stamps.

The steepest increases in need have been in the Pomona Valley, the Lancaster area, the San Fernando Valley and East Los Angeles.

By June 2010, officials estimate, the number of people participating in the county's general relief program, now at 74,143, will reach 91,000. That would erase 11 years of reductions in the caseload. The program provides $221 monthly to individuals who qualify for no other programs. Roughly 60% of those served are believed to be homeless.

Also by June of next year, the number of people receiving payments through CalWorks, the welfare program for families, is expected to rise to 400,000 from the current 367,173. That would erase three years of reductions.

In a sign of how stressed the economy is, county officials report that just as many applicants are denied as are approved; these denials reflect strict qualifications in place for most programs.

For years, declines in the welfare rolls had been offsetting the costs of steady increases in numbers of people qualifying for healthcare assistance through Medicaid and other programs. The demand for those programs has been driven by a growing number of senior citizens and increasing numbers of people going without employer-based health and disability insurance.

That welfare and healthcare demands are increasing at the same time is worrisome to officials.

In an attempt to halt the increases, Miguel Santana, a county deputy chief executive, said he hopes in the coming months to place general relief recipients in jobs or in federally funded programs that provide cash and medical assistance.

"We need to act more aggressively than ever to stem the tide" in general relief, Santana said.

Many of those getting help say they have done everything they can think of to find work.

In the waiting room at the welfare office in Rancho Dominguez, where late last week even the line for a parking space was dozens of cars long, 32-year-old Erlinda Romero held a rolled copy of the Pennysaver, dogeared on pages listing jobs she pursued.

"I can't get a callback," she said, noting that training last year to become a medical clerk has not yet yielded a job. Meanwhile, she receives Medicaid benefits and $500 in monthly welfare for herself and four children.

Nearby, 50-year-old Ed Baldwin slumped in his chair waiting for his name to be called to renew his food stamps. He has been unemployed for three years, since being laid off from his job as a mechanic for heavy trucks.

"This is getting scary," he said. "There are no jobs."

County officials say they are worried that just as the need for county aid surges, the treasury is dwindling.

Property tax revenue, usually stable, is shrinking for the first time in 13 years.

This comes at a time when the county, the region's largest employer, has ordered a strict hiring freeze that will include the Department of Public Social Services. The department's director, Philip Browning, has been ordered to draft a budget for the next fiscal year that is at least 5% less than the current year's.

Although the federal government is acting to increase food stamp and unemployment insurance benefits, programs that are wholly funded by the county -- including general relief -- remain static.

The monthly benefit of $221 has not increased for more than a decade, and no one is proposing that it increase now.

"We've got to be able to do the basics. We are not going to be able to do it in the same way we have in the past," Yaroslavsky said.

"If the hiring freeze in effect shuts down an office," he said, "we are going to have to look at an exemption. But we do not print money in the basement of the county Hall of Administration

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MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com

ZOGBY POLL

“In Mexico, a recent Zogby poll declared that the vast majority of Mexican citizens hate Americans. [22.2] Mexico is a country saturated with racism, yet in denial, having never endured the social development of a Civil Rights movement like in the US--Blacks are harshly treated while foreign Whites are often seen as the enemy. [22.3] In fact, racism as workplace discrimination can be seen across the US anywhere the illegal alien Latino works--the vast majority of the workforce is usually strictly Latino, excluding Blacks, Whites, Asians, and others.”

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HERITAGE FOUNDATION

“THE AMNESTY ALONE WILL BE THE LARGEST EXPANSION OF THE WELFARE SYSTEM IN THE LAST 25 YEARS”(DATED FIGURES)

Heritage Foundation

"The amnesty alone will be the largest expansion of the welfare system in the last 25 years," says Robert Rector, a senior analyst at the Heritage Foundation, and a witness at a House Judiciary Committee field hearing in San Diego Aug. 2. "Welfare costs will begin to hit their peak around 2021, because there are delays in citizenship. The very narrow time horizon [the CBO is] using is misleading," he adds. "If even a small fraction of those who come into the country stay and get on Medicaid, you're looking at costs of $20 billion or $30 billion per year."

In the real war, the American people face daily, the war waged by the corporate class and their bought politicians; it’s all about defeating LIVING WAGES!

“Numerous other reports have documented the enormous cost of illegal immigration on a national level. Just last year a renowned economist, who has thoroughly researched the impact of illegal immigration, published a book breaking down the country’s $346 billion annual cost to educate, jail, medically treat and incarcerate illegal aliens throughout the U.S.”BUT THAT’S ONLY A DROP IN THE BUCKET COMPARED TO THE WELFARE BANKSTERS RECEIVE FROM OUR LA RAZA DEMS!

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L.A.County's $48 Million Monthly Anchor Baby Tab

Last Updated: Wed, 08/12/2009- 11:24am

Taxpayers in the nation’s most populous county dished out nearly $50 million in a single month to cover only the welfare costs of illegal immigrants, representing a whopping $10 million increase over the same one-month period two years ago.

In June 2009 alone Los Angeles County spent $48 million ($26 million in food stamps and $22 million in welfare) to provide just two of numerous free public services to the children of illegal aliens, which will translate into an annual tab of nearly $600 million for the cash-strapped county.

The figure doesn’t even include the exorbitant cost of educating, medically treating or incarcerating illegal aliens in the sprawling county of about 10 million residents. Los Angeles County annually spends more than $1 billion for those combined services, including $400 million for healthcare and $350 million for public safety.

The recent single-month welfare figure was obtained from the county’s Department of Social Services and made public by a county supervisor (Michael Antonovich) who assures illegal immigration continues to have a “catastrophic impact on Los Angeles County taxpayers.” The veteran lawmaker points out that 24% of the county’s total allotment of welfare and food stamp benefits goes directly to the children of illegal aliens—known as anchor babies—born in the United States.

A former fifth-grade history teacher who has served on the county’s board for nearly three decades, Antonovich has repeatedly come under fire for publicizing statistics that confirm the devastation illegal immigration has had on the region. Antonovich represents a portion of the county that is roughly twice the size of Rhode Island and has about 2 million residents.

Numerous other reports have documented the enormous cost of illegal immigration on a national level. Just last year a renowned economist, who has thoroughly researched the impact of illegal immigration, published a book breaking down the country’s $346 billion annual cost to educate, jail, medically treat and incarcerate illegal aliens throughout the U.S.

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WELFARE COSTS FOR CHILDREN OF ILLEGAL ALIENS IN L.A. COUNTY OVER $48 MILLION IN JUNE

August 11, 2009—Figures from the Department of Public Social Services show that children of illegal aliens in Los Angeles County collected nearly $22 million in welfare and over $26 million in food stamps in June, announced Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich. Projected over a 12 month period – this would exceed $575 million dollars.

Annually the cost of illegal immigration to Los Angeles County taxpayers exceeds over $1 billion dollars, which includes $350 million for public safety, $400 million for healthcare, and $500 million in welfare and food stamps allocations. Twenty-four percent of the County’s total allotment of welfare and food stamp benefits goes directly to the children of illegal aliens born in the United States.

“Illegal immigration continues to have a catastrophic impact on Los Angeles County taxpayers,” said Antonovich. “The total cost for illegal immigrants to County taxpayers exceeds $1 billion a year – not including the millions of dollars for education.”

IF YOU CALL REP. HENRY WAXMAN’S OFFICE AND ASK THEM WHAT HIS POSITION IS ON ILLEGALS AND THE MEXICAN OCCUPATION, HIS OFFICE VOLUNTEERS STAMMER THEN GO DUMB. NO WONDER LA RAZA ENDORSES HENRY WAXMAN.

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Illegals Receiving Health Care…."But....( of course there is!)"

“If you’re in this country illegally, should you be able to get health care?” CNN’s John King asked Mrs. Pelosi.

These loopholes, Rep. Smith maintains, are “no accident.” He maintains that the proposed legislation, despite months of debate, still contains no mechanism for verifying if applicants are legal residents or not.

The Republican members of the Ways and Means Committee attempted to address this loophole by an amendment proposed by Congressman Dick Heller (R-Nevada) which would have required applicants for government provided or subsidized health care to demonstrate eligibility through the Income and Eligibility Verification System (IEVS) and the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) systems.

The Federal for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) believes the legislation is now purposefully self-contradictory in order to ensure that the millions of illegal Latinos will receive coverage. FAIR points out that while one provision of the proposed health care reform bill states illegal immigrants will not be eligible for benefits, the legislation remains without any system of verification for determining if a patient is a legal or illegal U. S. resident.

Moreover, Fair insists, the bill leaves open the possibility that if one citizen family member is eligible for benefits, then the entire family —including illegal immigrants — is also eligible for the benefits.

“At a time when the federal government is running trillion dollar deficits, and the projected costs of the proposed health care overhaul seem to grow with each passing day, the committee that writes our tax laws wants Americans to pay for the health care costs of illegal aliens,” says FAIR President Dan Stein. “Given the opportunity to close loopholes that would cost the public billions of dollars each year, Democrats on the committee unanimously rejected an amendment that would bar illegal aliens from a national health care program.”

The cost of treating illegal aliens amounts to nearly $11 billion a year, according to calculations done by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a non-profit group that opposes illegal immigration. And that cost is not expected to go away if a health insurance reform bill becomes law.

According to FAIR’s Director of Special Projects Jack Martin, illegal immigrants presently cost U. S. taxpayers $10.7 billion a year for health care. The numbers are contained in a report that FAIR plans to publish in the near future.

“The current health care bill is looking as if it is leaving a very large loophole for medical coverage being provided to illegal aliens,” Martin said.

So again, yes, the speaker of the House can say: "We've made no provision for Health Care for Illegal Aliens". But, is she in fact telling you the WHOLE truth or only half a truth. I am an independent voter and I, at this point, have my opinion. You be the judge for your own opinion.

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The politics of Healthcare Reform

from the AP -

"Immigration analyst James R. Edwards Jr. reported last week in National Review that "no health legislation on the table requires federal, state or local agencies -- or private institutions receiving federal funds -- to check the immigration status of health-program applicants, so some of the money distributed via Medicaid and tax credits inevitably would go to illegal aliens." Moreover, the Senate Finance Committee plan creates a preference for illegal aliens by exempting them from the mandate to buy insurance.

That's right. Lawabiding, uninsured Americans would be fined if they didn't submit to the ObamaCare prescription.

Lawbreaking bordercrossers and deportation fugitives would be spared.

For years, advocates of uncontrolled immigration have argued that illegals aren't getting free health care, and that even if they were, they'd not be draining government budgets. The fiscal crisis in California gives lie to those talking points. In March, the Associated Press reported that Sacramento and Contra Costa counties were slashing staff and closing clinics due to the prohibitive costs of providing nonemergency health services for illegals.

"The general situation there is being faced by nearly every health department across the country, and if not right now, shortly," Robert M. Pestronk of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, told the AP."

washington post

Health-care law will add $340 billion to deficit, new
study finds

President Obama’s landmark health-care initiative, long touted as a means to
control costs, will actually add more than $340 billion to the nation’s budget
woes over the next decade, according to a new study by a Republican member of
the board that oversees Medicare financing.
The study is set to be released Tuesday by Charles Blahous, a conservative
policy analyst whom Obama approved in 2010 as the GOP trustee for Medicare and
Social Security. His analysis challenges the conventional wisdom that the health-care law, which calls for an expensive
expansion of coverage for the uninsured beginning in 2014, will nonetheless
reduce deficits by raising taxes and cutting payments to Medicare providers.
The 2010 law does generate both savings and revenue. But much of that money
will flow into the Medicare hospitalization trust fund — and, under law, the
money must be used to pay years of additional benefits to those who are already
insured. That means those savings would not be available to pay for expanding
coverage for the uninsured.
“Does the health-care act worsen the deficit? The answer, I think, is clearly
that it does,” Blahous, a senior research fellow at George Mason University’s
Mercatus Center, said in an interview. “If one asserts that this law extends the
solvency of Medicare, then one is affirming that this law adds to the deficit.
Because the expansion of the Medicare trust fund and the creation of the new
subsidies together create more spending than existed under prior law.”
Administration officials dismissed the study, arguing that it departs from
bipartisan budget rules used to measure every major deficit-reduction effort for
the past four decades — including the blueprint offered last month by House Budget Committee
Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).
“Opponents of reform are using ‘new math’ while they attempt to refight the
political battles of the past,” a White House budget official said, speaking on
the condition of anonymity because the report was not publicly available. “The
fact of the matter is, the Congressional Budget Office and independent experts
concluded that the health-reform law will reduce the deficit. That was true the
day the bill was signed into law, and it’s true today.”
Blahous acknowledged that his analysis departs from budget conventions,
which, he said, make sense for the most part. He said that in this case,
however, those rules do not fully illuminate the financial impact of the
health-care law, since they permit what conservative critics have dubbed a “double counting” of proposed Medicare savings.
Medicare is financed in part through a trust fund that receives revenue from
payroll taxes. Before Obama’s health-care act passed, the trust fund was projected to be drained by 2017 (later updated to 2016).
Absent the health-care law, Blahous writes, Medicare would have been forced to
enact a sharp reduction in benefit payments in the middle of this decade, or
“other Medicare savings would have had to be found.”
Enter the health-care law, which provides about $575 billion in Medicare
savings — enough to automatically extend the life of the trust fund through 2029, according to estimates at the time, and
avoid a sharp cut in benefits.
But in cost estimates by the nonpartisan CBO, those savings also offset a
dramatic expansion of Medicaid under the law, as well as new subsidies for
uninsured people to purchase coverage.
CBO and Medicare actuaries acknowledge the double-counting issue. “In
practice, the improved [trust fund] financing cannot be simultaneously used to
finance other federal outlays (such as the coverage expansions) and to extend
the trust fund, despite the appearance of this result from” traditional budget
rules, Medicare actuary Rick Foster
wrote last year.
And in 2010, the CBO wrote that, absent the Medicare savings, the law would
increase deficits by $226 billion through 2019 — instead of decreasing them by
the commonly cited $132 billion.
In arriving at his deficit figure of $340 billion, Blahous updates the
numbers through 2021 and subtracts savings that would have come from another
provision of the law: the CLASS Act, a long-term-care program that was supposed
to have generated as much as $86 billion in new revenue through 2021. The
administration acknowledged last year that the CLASS Act is unworkable and suspended efforts to implement it.
“This isn’t just a persnickety point about the intricacies of budget law,”
Blahous said. “If Medicare were going insolvent in 2016, you’d better believe
right now there would be more pressure on lawmakers to do something about it.
. . . It’s essential that there be a full public understanding of the most
economically significant federal law in years.”

FROM FAIRUS.org …… get on their
free EMAILS for updates on how our government sells us out to the illegals for
their corporate masters!

OBAMA’S
CON GAME

Obama Health Care Plan Silent on Immigration Issues

Last
week, President Obama attempted to kick-start the stalled health care debate by
offering his own proposal to reform the U.S. health care system. While the
White House states that the proposal “incorporates the work the House and the
Senate have done and adds additional ideas from Republican members of
Congress,” the president’s plan is more akin to a list of ideas rather than
actual legislative text. (Proposal). Importantly, the
White House proposal is completely silent with respect to the
immigration-related issues FAIR and other groups had raised concerning the
House and Senate-passed health care bills.

Immigration
reformers took issue with the House-passed health care bill (H.R. 3962) because it: (1) waives the
five-year waiting period for legal aliens with respect to the
taxpayer-subsidized affordability credits created under the legislation and (2)
contains a flawed verification process that would allow illegal aliens to
fraudulently obtain benefits. (See FAIR’s Legislative
Analysis
of H.R. 3962). There were similar problems in the Senate bill (H.R. 3590; See also FAIR’s Legislative
Analysis
of H.R. 3590), although the Senate bill generally bars illegal aliens from
participating in the “exchange” marketplace, while the House bill does not. (See
FAIR President Dan Stein’s USA Today op-ed, November 2009). It is
unclear as to how President Obama’s proposal would address these issues.

Unfortunately,
last week’s bipartisan health care summit did not address any of these issues,
and at this point, it remains uncertain as to how the health care debate will
proceed. Stay tuned to FAIR for the latest on immigration and health care
reform…

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PELOSI IS LONG AN ADVOCATE FOR OPEN BORDERS,
AMNESTY, CHAIN MIGRATION. DO YOU THINK THIS IS BECAUSE SHE HAS LONG ILLEGALLY
HIRED ILLEGALS AT HER $20 MILLION NAPA WINERY???

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Illegals Receiving Health Care
…."But....( of course there is!)"

CNN INTERVIEW OF LYING LA RAZA PELOSI ON HEALTHCARE TO
ILLEGALS

“If you’re in this
country illegally, should you be able to get health care?” CNN’s John King
asked Mrs. Pelosi.

These loopholes, Rep. Smith maintains, are “no accident.” He maintains that the
proposed legislation, despite months of debate, still contains no mechanism for
verifying if applicants are legal residents or not.

The Republican members of the Ways and Means Committee attempted to address
this loophole by an amendment proposed by Congressman Dick Heller (R-Nevada) which
would have required applicants for government provided or subsidized health
care to demonstrate eligibility through the Income and Eligibility Verification
System (IEVS) and the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE)
systems.

The Federal for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) believes the legislation is
now purposefully self-contradictory in order to ensure that the millions of
illegal Latinos will receive coverage. FAIR points out that while one provision
of the proposed health care reform bill states illegal immigrants will not be eligible
for benefits, the legislation remains without any system of verification for
determining if a patient is a legal or illegal U. S. resident.

Moreover, Fair insists, the bill leaves open the possibility that if one
citizen family member is eligible for benefits, then the entire family —
including illegal immigrants — is also eligible for the benefits.

“At a time when the federal government is running trillion dollar deficits, and
the projected costs of the proposed health care overhaul seem to grow with each
passing day, the committee that writes our tax laws wants Americans to pay for
the health care costs of illegal aliens,” says FAIR President Dan Stein. “Given
the opportunity to close loopholes that would cost the public billions of
dollars each year, Democrats on the committee unanimously rejected an amendment
that would bar illegal aliens from a national health care program.”

The cost of treating illegal aliens amounts to nearly $11 billion a year,
according to calculations done by the Federation for American Immigration
Reform (FAIR), a non-profit group that opposes illegal immigration. And that
cost is not expected to go away if a health insurance reform bill becomes law.

According to FAIR’s Director of Special Projects Jack Martin, illegal
immigrants presently cost U. S. taxpayers $10.7 billion a year for health care.
The numbers are contained in a report that FAIR plans to publish in the near
future.

“The current health care bill is looking as if it is leaving a very large
loophole for medical coverage being provided to illegal aliens,” Martin said.

So again, yes, the speaker of the House can say: "We've made no provision
for Health Care for Illegal Aliens". But, is she in fact telling you the
WHOLE truth or only half a truth. I am an independent voter and I, at this
point, have my opinion. You be the judge for your own opinion.

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The politics of Healthcare Reform

from the AP -

"Immigration analyst James R. Edwards Jr. reported last week in National
Review that "no health legislation on the table requires federal, state or
local agencies -- or private institutions receiving federal funds -- to check
the immigration status of health-program applicants, so some of the money
distributed via Medicaid and tax credits inevitably would go to illegal
aliens." Moreover, the Senate Finance Committee plan creates a preference
for illegal aliens by exempting them from the mandate to buy insurance.

That's right. Lawabiding, uninsured Americans would be fined if they didn't
submit to the ObamaCare prescription.

Lawbreaking bordercrossers and deportation fugitives would be spared.

For years, advocates of uncontrolled immigration have argued that illegals
aren't getting free health care, and that even if they were, they'd not be
draining government budgets. The fiscal crisis in California gives lie to those
talking points. In March, the Associated Press reported that Sacramento and
Contra Costa counties were slashing staff and closing clinics due to the
prohibitive costs of providing nonemergency health services for illegals.

"The general situation there is being faced by nearly every health
department across the country, and if not right now, shortly," Robert M.
Pestronk of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, told
the AP."

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ACCORDING TO SENATOR LAMAR SMITH OF TEXAS, WHEN
CHALLENGING SO- CALLED “HOMELAND SECURITY = PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIPS” LA RAZA
JANET NAPOLITANO, AS TO WHY OUR BORDERS ARE WIDE OPEN TO NARCOMEX, OBAMA HAS
CUT ENFORCEMENT BY MORE THAN 60% IN ALL AREAS.

Obama soft on illegals enforcement

Arrests of illegal immigrant
workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures
released Wednesday. Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and
convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50
percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009.

The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift
enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at
the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican
who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican
on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the
wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs
that Americans otherwise would hold.

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! YOU LIE! THE BELOW IS EXACTLY
WHAT THE DEMS DO TO US EVERY DAY. THEY LIE ABOUT DEFENDED OUR BORDERS, JOBS,
AND CULTURE, WHILE THEY CONTINUALLY PUT OUT INDUCEMENTS FOR MORE ILLEGALS TO
CLIMB OUR BORDERS, AND HEAD FOR THE VOTING BOOTHS!

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“The
president's straddling can work for the time being. But unless he wants to end
up in the sawdust, acrobat Obama will eventually have to hop on one horse and
lead the way. That would have to be the horse named "Enforcement
First." CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

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“What's
needed to discourage illegal immigration into the United States has been known
for years: Enforce existing law.” ….. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

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But President Obama lit the fuse in February when he signed the
massive expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP).
That law loosened eligibility requirements for legal immigrants and their
children by watering down document and evidentiary standards – making it easy
for individuals to use fake Social Security cards to apply for benefits with
little to no chance of getting caught. In addition, Obama’s S-CHIP expansion
revoked Medicaid application time limits that were part of the 1996 welfare
reform law. Immigration activists see the provisions as first steps toward
universal coverage for illegals.
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Congressman Brian Bilbray,
along with 55 other Members of Congress, is urging the leaders of the United
States House of Representatives to include a method of enforcement for benefits
under any new plan of nationalized health care. The text of the letter follows:

September 15, 2009

The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
Speaker of the House
H-232 United States Capitol
Washington, DC 20515

The Honorable John Boehner
Office of the House Republican Leader
H-204 United States Capitol
Washington, DC 20515

Dear Madam Speaker and
Republican Leader Boehner:

As discussion on health care
reform continues, we urge you to include measures that will prevent illegal
immigrants from receiving taxpayer-funded benefits in any health care reform
bill considered by the House. While the House bill currently says illegal
immigrants cannot get benefits, the statement is meaningless because the bill
contains no verification mechanism to ensure that illegal immigrants will not
receive benefits.

The non-partisan
Congressional Research Service (CRS) recently issued some troubling information
on the immigration-related provisions of the current health care bill, H.R.
3200. Specifically, the new CRS Report R40773, Treatment of Noncitizens in
H.R. 3200, points out the following:

CRS states that H.R. 3200 "does not contain any
restrictions on noncitzens—whether legally or illegally present, or in the
United States temporarily or permanently—participating in the
[taxpayer-subsidized Health Insurance] Exchange."

While section 142(a)(3) of H.R. 3200 states the
responsibility of the Health Choices Commissioner to administer the
"individual affordability credits under subtitle C of title II,
including determination of eligibility for such credits," no specific
enforcement mechanism is outlined in the bill.

CRS also notes that "there could be instances
where some family members would meet the definition of an eligible
individual for purposes of the credit, while other family members would
not. For example, in a family consisting of a U.S. citizen married to an
unauthorized alien and a U.S. citizen child, the U.S. citizen spouse and
child could meet the criteria for being a credit-eligible individual,
while the unauthorized alien spouse would not meet the criteria. H.R. 3200
does not expressly address how such a situation would be treated.
Therefore, it appears that the Health Choices Commissioner would be
responsible for determining how the credits would be administered in the
case of mixed-status families."

Our constituents find these
provisions unacceptable. The Pew Hispanic Center estimated that there are
almost two million families in the United States where illegal immigrant
parents have U.S.-born children, and even more mixed-status families exist. If
H.R. 3200 becomes law in its current form, billions in taxpayer funds could go
to those who are in our country illegally.

Most of our concerns could be
easily addressed by requiring individuals applying for affordability credits to
undergo citizenship verification using one of the existing programs used for
various social service programs. We urge you to adopt language such as the
Heller amendment (offered in the House Ways & Means Committee during the
markup of H.R. 3200, July 16, 2009) or the Deal amendment (offered in the House
Energy & Commerce Committee markup of H.R. 3200, July 31, 2009) in the final
version of any health care reform legislation to close these costly,
unnecessarily loopholes.

Sincerely,

Brian P. Bilbray
Member of Congress

Lamar Smith
Member of Congress

Phil Gingrey
Member of Congress

Dana Rohrabacher
Member of Congress

Ed Whitfield
Member of Congress

Marsha Blackburn
Member of Congress

Walter B. Jones
Member of Congress

Spencer Bachus
Member of Congress

Ed Royce
Member of Congress

Elton Gallegly
Member of Congress

Shelley Moore Capito
Member of Congress

Todd Platts
Member of Congress

John J. Duncan, Jr.
Member of Congress

David P. Roe
Member of Congress

J. Gresham Barrett
Member of Congress

Steve King
Member of Congress

Todd Akin
Member of Congress

Ted Poe
Member of Congress

Bob Goodlatte
Member of Congress

Dan Burton
Member of Congress

Patrick T. McHenry
Member of Congress

Paul C. Brown
Member of Congress

John Culberson
Member of Congress

Virginia Foxx
Member of Congress

Rodney Alexander
Member of Congress

Bill Posey
Member of Congress

Peter Hoekstra
Member of Congress

Dean Heller
Member of Congress

Nathan Deal
Member of Congress

John Campbell
Member of Congress

Todd Tiahrt
Member of Congress

Howard Coble
Member of Congress

Louie Gohmert
Member of Congress

Trent Franks
Member of Congress

John Fleming
Member of Congress

Gus M. Bilirakis
Member of Congress

Adrian Smith
Member of Congress

John Boozman
Member of Congress

Gary G. Miller
Member of Congress

Jack Kingston
Member of Congress

Sue Myrick
Member of Congress

Jeff Miller
Member of Congress

Roscoe G. Bartlett
Member of Congress

Kenny Marchant
Member of Congress

Scott Garrett
Member of Congress

Cliff Stearns
Member of Congress

Robert B. Aderholt
Member of Congress

Frank R. Wolf
Member of Congress

John Sullivan
Member of Congress

Tom Price
Member of Congress

Jason Chaffetz
Member of Congress

Michael T. McCaul
Member of Congress

Wally Herger
Member of Congress

Mary Fallin
Member of Congress

Cc: House Ways & Means
Committee Chairman and Ranking Member
House Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman and Ranking Member
House Education and Labor Committee Chairman and Ranking Member

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WHILE BARACK OBAMA GIVES HIMSELF A
B+ (HIS BANKSTERS GAVE HIM THE GRADE) JUDICIAL WATCH’S GRADE IS A BIT MORE
REALISTIC:

JUDICIAL WATCH.org

With trillion dollar bailouts, government-run healthcare, banks and car
companies, ACORN corruption, attacks on conservative media, illegal alien
amnesty, unprecedented and dangerous new rights for terrorists, perks for
campaign donors—this is the Obama legacy—and we haven't even gotten through the
first year of his presidency!

San
Bernardino County spent nearly $64 million in state and federal money last year
to provide welfare benefits to the American-born children of illegal
immigrants.

Illegal immigrants aren't
entitled to welfare. But their citizen children are.

Nationwide, one in three
immigrant-headed households uses at least one major welfare program, compared
with 19 percent of citizen households, according to the Center for Immigration
Studies, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that advocates immigration
reduction.

In California, 192,660
citizen children are getting welfare checks passed through their illegal
immigrant parents. That costs $546 million a year in state, federal and county
funds, officials say.

Some lawmakers say it's an
expense California can't afford as the state struggles to close a nearly $20
billion budget gap.

"We should never be
giving benefits to people in this country illegally," said state Sen. Bob
Dutton, R-Rancho Cucamonga.

County officials provided
data from August 2009 to show the funding and number of American-born children
of illegal immigrants receiving aid in the CalWORKs and food stamp programs.

Information for all of 2009
was not easily retrievable, officials said, but the August figures are an
accurate reflection of a monthly total during the year.

The county's Transitional
Assistance Department runs the CalWORKs program, which provides cash aid and
services to needy families, as well as the food stamp program.

The maximum CalWORKs grant
for a family of three in the county is $661 per month. The maximum amount of
food stamp assistance that a family of three can get is $526 a month.

The American-born children of
illegal immigrants made up 15.5 percent of the CalWORKs caseload and 6.5
percent of the food stamp caseload in the county last year.

About 15,000 citizen children
of illegal immigrants in the county received either CalWORKs or food stamps in
a typical month last year. More than 11,000 used both programs in an average
month in 2009, according to county data.

In August, the county spent
nearly $3.3 million for CalWORKs and about $2 million for food stamps for the
American-born children of illegal immigrants. The two programs totaled nearly
$64 million when multiplied over 12 months.

The county contributes
roughly $1.7 million a year of its own funds to run the programs, officials
say.

"This is a huge burden
on our state," said Assemblyman Steve Knight, R-Palmdale, whose district
includes Victorville and northwestern San Bernardino County. "Obviously,
these kids are U.S. citizens and that's fine. But when you look at it, these
parents should have never been here in the first place."

The welfare expenses don't
count pregnancy-related services that were provided last year to about 2,350
illegal immigrant women in the county through Medi-Cal, a health-care program
for low-income California residents.

The welfare costs also don't
include the roughly $11 billion the state spends annually for education,
unreimbursed health care and incarceration of illegal immigrant criminals, said
Ira Mehlman, spokesman for the Federation of American Immigration Reform, a
Washington D.C.-based group that favors strict immigration limits.

"The American people are
fed up with illegal aliens depleting our tax dollars by overrunning our
schools, our hospitals and our welfare system," said Raymond Herrera,
founder and president of We The People California's Crusader, a Claremont-based
anti-illegal immigration group.

This month, Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger proposed a nearly 16 percent grant reduction to CalWORKs
caseloads, a move that could save the state almost $590 million.

Dutton said the CalWORKs
program has failed.

"I don't think it's done
a good job," he said. "People are on it too long. They've become dependent.
If the program doesn't work, you need to get rid of it and try something
different."

There is a five-year time
limit for adults receiving CalWORKs. But children are still entitled to their
share of benefits after their parents are cut off.

There is no time limit for
the food stamp program.

The county did not have data
on the average length of time an illegal immigrant parent with an American-born
child receives CalWORKs or food stamps.

Supporters of the CalWORKs
program say the proposed cuts would have devastating consequences.

"What they're attempting
to do is cripple the future prosperity of our community by denying legal
benefits to these American-born children," said Gil Navarro, a member of
the San Bernardino County board of education.

"You are creating havoc
in the community because now people have to survive in a different way,"
said Navarro, who is running for a state assembly seat in the June Democratic
primary against Assemblywoman Wilmer Amina Carter, D-Rialto. "Hungry people
are forced to do things they may not normally do."

Not all illegal immigrants
take advantage of public services like welfare that are available to their
U.S.-born children.

Freddy Munguia, a 34-year-old
illegal immigrant from Honduras, said he won't ask for public assistance for
his 2- and 3-year-old American-born daughters.

"I don't want my kids to
get any help from the government," said Munguia, a day laborer who came to
this country four years ago. "Instead of helping the country, I'm taking
away from it."

Critics of illegal
immigration call the children "anchor babies" whose citizenship
allows their illegal immigrant parents to gain a foothold in this country and
receive welfare and other benefits for their kids.

"In some cases, people
do come here with the intent of having children in this country because they
believe it will work to their advantage," Mehlman said.

Others have a different view.

California could reap an
economic boon worth $16 billion by legalizing its 1.8 million Latino illegal
immigrant adults, helping fix the state's financial problems, according to a
report released last week by the USC Center for the Study of Immigrant
Integration.

"Our immigrants are an
asset economically, politically, religiously and culturally," said the
Rev. Patricio Guillen, a retired Roman Catholic priest who is executive
director of Libreria del Pueblo, a San Bernardino nonprofit that helps
immigrants.

THE POPULATION OF NEVADA IS
ALREADY 25% ILLEGAL, AND THEY’RE BREEDING FAST.

IN MEXICAN OCCUPIED GANGLAND OF
LOS ANGELES, THE ILLEGALS COLLECT $50 MILLION IN WELFARE PER MONTH, AND 47% OF
THOSE EMPLOYED ARE ILLEGALS.

TIME TO FIGHT FORYOUR COUNTRY?

LA RAZA… “THE RACE” THINKS GRINGOS
ARE TOO FUCKING WEAK!

FROM JUDICIAL WATCH, get on their
email list!

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No. Of Illegal Aliens On Welfare Doubles In Nevada

Last Updated: Tue, 11/03/2009 - 12:51pm

A
relatively new federal program that allows illegal immigrants to use their
American-born anchor babies to collect welfare for the entire family has
expanded nationwide and nearly doubled in a western state that already spends
hundreds of millions of dollars to provide undocumented residents with public
services.

The Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF) was created by the U.S. Dept of Health and Human
Services a few years ago so that illegal aliens could get monthly welfare
checks to help support the entire family. It is the only public assistance
program where parents can apply in their children’s name as opposed to applying
in their own. It also does not require parents to demonstrate that they are in
the U.S. legally since most aren’t.

In
Nevada alone, the TANF program’s caseload has grown 96% since the recession hit
the state like an atomic bomb two years ago. A news report reveals that around
4,250 of the families receiving the benefit in Nevada have “mixed
immigration status.”
In other words, U.S. taxpayers are supporting thousands of illegal alien
families because they have at least one anchor baby.

Nevada
already blows a whopping $630 million
a year to
provide its rapidly growing illegal immigrant population with public services
that should be reserved for legal U.S. residents. The Silver State spends $470
million annually to educate the children of illegal immigrants in public
schools and an additional $45 million for limited English programs. Eighty five
million goes to healthcare for illegal immigrants and $31 to incarcerate them.

Illegal
aliens are also largely responsible for Nevada’s home foreclosure crisis,
reportedly the nation’s worst. Around 5 million
fraudulent mortgages
nationwide are in the hands of illegal aliens, according to the U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban Development, and it is no secret that a substantial chunk
of them are in Nevada.

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From the Los Angeles Times
20% in Los Angeles County receive public aid

The figure matches the total at the height of the 2001-03 recession, and
officials expect it to rise significantly.

By Garrett Therolf

February 22, 2009

One in five Los Angeles County residents -- nearly 2.2 million people -- are
receiving public assistance payments or benefits, a level county officials say
will rise significantly over the coming months as the fallout from the
recession continues.

The percentage of people on county aid already equals the figure at the height
of the 2001-03 recession and far exceeds the one in seven who needed help
during the economic downturn in the early 1990s and the one in nine assisted in
the collapse of the early 1980s.

The rise in welfare recipients in the county is the first sustained uptick
since welfare reform under the Clinton administration imposed strict time
limits on benefits in 1996.

County officials warn that tens of thousands of additional frustrated job
seekers -- unemployment in the county currently stands at 9.5% -- are expected
to seek aid to weather the persistent recession once their other benefits run
out.

The total includes those receiving food stamps and general relief as well as
other county-administered aid programs, such as in-home healthcare. The cost --
shouldered by the county, state and federal governments -- was $334 million a
month by the end of last year, according to the latest report by the county's
Department of Public Social Services.

The rising demand has left public assistance offices ill-equipped to deal with
the growing multitude of indigent people. In some locations, lines routinely
snake hundreds of feet outside entrances.

"We have the highest human service burden of any county in the country in
sheer numbers," Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky said.

"Two million people is the size of some countries; that's how big our
problem is," he said.

To have reached the point of receiving county aid, recipients usually have
little left.

Qualifying for help most often means they already have run out of unemployment
insurance and drained their bank accounts and other assets.

In other cases, low-wage workers or those whose hours have been cut can earn so
little that they qualify for Medicaid or food stamps.

The steepest increases in need have been in the Pomona Valley, the Lancaster
area, the San Fernando Valley and East Los Angeles.

By June 2010, officials estimate, the number of people participating in the
county's general relief program, now at 74,143, will reach 91,000. That would
erase 11 years of reductions in the caseload. The program provides $221 monthly
to individuals who qualify for no other programs. Roughly 60% of those served
are believed to be homeless.

Also by June of next year, the number of people receiving payments through
CalWorks, the welfare program for families, is expected to rise to 400,000 from
the current 367,173. That would erase three years of reductions.

In a sign of how stressed the economy is, county officials report that just as
many applicants are denied as are approved; these denials reflect strict
qualifications in place for most programs.

For years, declines in the welfare rolls had been offsetting the costs of
steady increases in numbers of people qualifying for healthcare assistance
through Medicaid and other programs. The demand for those programs has been
driven by a growing number of senior citizens and increasing numbers of people
going without employer-based health and disability insurance.

That welfare and healthcare demands are increasing at the same time is
worrisome to officials.

In an attempt to halt the increases, Miguel Santana, a county deputy chief
executive, said he hopes in the coming months to place general relief
recipients in jobs or in federally funded programs that provide cash and
medical assistance.

"We need to act more aggressively than ever to stem the tide" in
general relief, Santana said.

Many of those getting help say they have done everything they can think of to
find work.

In the waiting room at the welfare office in Rancho Dominguez, where late last
week even the line for a parking space was dozens of cars long, 32-year-old
Erlinda Romero held a rolled copy of the Pennysaver, dogeared on pages listing
jobs she pursued.

"I can't get a callback," she said, noting that training last year to
become a medical clerk has not yet yielded a job. Meanwhile, she receives
Medicaid benefits and $500 in monthly welfare for herself and four children.

Nearby, 50-year-old Ed Baldwin slumped in his chair waiting for his name to be
called to renew his food stamps. He has been unemployed for three years, since
being laid off from his job as a mechanic for heavy trucks.

"This is getting scary," he said. "There are no jobs."

County officials say they are worried that just as the need for county aid
surges, the treasury is dwindling.

Property tax revenue, usually stable, is shrinking for the first time in 13
years.

This comes at a time when the county, the region's largest employer, has
ordered a strict hiring freeze that will include the Department of Public
Social Services. The department's director, Philip Browning, has been ordered
to draft a budget for the next fiscal year that is at least 5% less than the
current year's.

Although the federal government is acting to increase food stamp and
unemployment insurance benefits, programs that are wholly funded by the county
-- including general relief -- remain static.

The monthly benefit of $221 has not increased for more than a decade, and no
one is proposing that it increase now.

"We've got to be able to do the basics. We are not going to be able to do
it in the same way we have in the past," Yaroslavsky said.

"If the hiring freeze in effect shuts down an office," he said,
"we are going to have to look at an exemption. But we do not print money
in the basement of the county Hall of Administration

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MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com

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ZOGBY POLL

“In Mexico, a recent Zogby poll declared that the vast
majority of Mexican citizens hate Americans. [22.2] Mexico is a country saturated
with racism, yet in denial, having never endured the social development of a
Civil Rights movement like in the US--Blacks are harshly treated while foreign
Whites are often seen as the enemy. [22.3] In fact, racism as workplace
discrimination can be seen across the US anywhere the illegal alien Latino
works--the vast majority of the workforce is usually strictly Latino, excluding
Blacks, Whites, Asians, and others.”

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HERITAGE FOUNDATION

“THE
AMNESTY ALONE WILL BE THE LARGEST EXPANSION OF THE WELFARE SYSTEM IN THE LAST
25 YEARS”(DATED FIGURES)

Heritage
Foundation

"The amnesty alone will be the largest expansion of the welfare system in
the last 25 years," says Robert Rector, a senior analyst at the Heritage
Foundation, and a witness at a House Judiciary Committee field hearing in San
Diego Aug. 2. "Welfare costs will begin to hit their peak around 2021,
because there are delays in citizenship. The very narrow time horizon [the CBO
is] using is misleading," he adds. "If even a small fraction of those
who come into the country stay and get on Medicaid, you're looking at costs of
$20 billion or $30 billion per year."

MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com

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In the
real war, the American people face daily, the war waged by the corporate class
and their bought politicians; it’s all about defeating LIVING WAGES!

“Numerous other reports have
documented the enormous cost of illegal immigration on a national level. Just
last year a renowned economist, who has thoroughly researched the impact of
illegal immigration, published a book breaking down the country’s $346 billion annual cost to
educate, jail, medically treat and incarcerate illegal aliens throughout the U.S.”BUT THAT’S ONLY A DROP IN THE BUCKET
COMPARED TO THE WELFARE BANKSTERS RECEIVE FROM OUR LA RAZA DEMS!

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L.A.County's $48 Million Monthly Anchor Baby Tab

Last Updated: Wed, 08/12/2009
- 11:24am

Taxpayers
in the nation’s most populous county dished out nearly $50 million in a single
month to cover only the welfare costs of illegal immigrants, representing a
whopping $10 million increase over the same one-month period two years
ago.

In
June 2009 alone Los Angeles County spent $48 million ($26 million in food
stamps and $22 million in welfare) to provide just two of numerous free public
services to the children of illegal aliens, which will translate into an annual
tab of nearly $600 million for the cash-strapped county.

The
figure doesn’t even include the exorbitant cost of educating, medically
treating or incarcerating illegal aliens in the sprawling county of about 10
million residents. Los Angeles County annually spends more than $1 billion for
those combined services, including $400 million for healthcare and $350 million
for public safety.

The
recent single-month welfare figure was obtained from the county’s Department of
Social Services and made public by a county supervisor (Michael Antonovich) who
assures illegal immigration continues to have a “catastrophic
impact on Los Angeles County taxpayers.” The veteran lawmaker points out that 24% of the county’s
total allotment of welfare and food stamp benefits goes directly to the
children of illegal aliens—known as anchor babies—born in the United States.

A
former fifth-grade history teacher who has served on the county’s board for
nearly three decades, Antonovich has repeatedly come under fire for publicizing
statistics that confirm the devastation illegal immigration has had on the
region. Antonovich represents a portion of the county that is roughly twice the
size of Rhode Island and has about 2 million residents.

Numerous other reports have
documented the enormous cost of illegal immigration on a national level. Just
last year a renowned economist, who has thoroughly researched the impact of
illegal immigration, published a book breaking down the country’s $346 billion annual cost to
educate, jail, medically treat and incarcerate illegal aliens throughout the
U.S.

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WELFARE COSTS FOR CHILDREN
OF ILLEGAL ALIENS IN L.A. COUNTY OVER $48 MILLION IN JUNE

August 11, 2009—Figures from the
Department of Public Social Services show that children of illegal aliens in
Los Angeles County collected nearly $22 million in welfare and over $26 million
in food stamps in June, announced Los Angeles County Supervisor Michael D.
Antonovich. Projected over a 12 month period – this would exceed $575
million dollars.

Annually the cost of illegal immigration to Los Angeles County taxpayers
exceeds over $1 billion dollars, which includes $350 million for public safety,
$400 million for healthcare, and $500 million in welfare and food stamps
allocations. Twenty-four percent of the County’s total allotment of
welfare and food stamp benefits goes directly to the children of illegal aliens
born in the United States.

“Illegal immigration continues to have a catastrophic impact on Los Angeles
County taxpayers,” said Antonovich. “The total cost for illegal
immigrants to County taxpayers exceeds $1 billion a year – not including the
millions of dollars for education.”

IF YOU CALL REP. HENRY WAXMAN’S OFFICE AND
ASK THEM WHAT HIS POSITION IS ON ILLEGALS AND THE MEXICAN OCCUPATION, HIS
OFFICE VOLUNTEERS STAMMER THEN GO DUMB. NO WONDER LA RAZA ENDORSES HENRY
WAXMAN.

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Illegals Receiving Health Care
…."But....( of course there is!)"

“If you’re in this
country illegally, should you be able to get health care?” CNN’s John King
asked Mrs. Pelosi.

These loopholes, Rep. Smith maintains, are “no accident.” He maintains that the
proposed legislation, despite months of debate, still contains no mechanism for
verifying if applicants are legal residents or not.

The Republican members of the Ways and Means Committee attempted to address
this loophole by an amendment proposed by Congressman Dick Heller (R-Nevada)
which would have required applicants for government provided or subsidized
health care to demonstrate eligibility through the Income and Eligibility
Verification System (IEVS) and the Systematic Alien Verification for
Entitlements (SAVE) systems.

The Federal for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) believes the legislation is
now purposefully self-contradictory in order to ensure that the millions of
illegal Latinos will receive coverage. FAIR points out that while one provision
of the proposed health care reform bill states illegal immigrants will not be
eligible for benefits, the legislation remains without any system of
verification for determining if a patient is a legal or illegal U. S. resident.

Moreover, Fair insists, the bill leaves open the possibility that if one
citizen family member is eligible for benefits, then the entire family —
including illegal immigrants — is also eligible for the benefits.

“At a time when the federal government is running trillion dollar deficits, and
the projected costs of the proposed health care overhaul seem to grow with each
passing day, the committee that writes our tax laws wants Americans to pay for
the health care costs of illegal aliens,” says FAIR President Dan Stein. “Given
the opportunity to close loopholes that would cost the public billions of
dollars each year, Democrats on the committee unanimously rejected an amendment
that would bar illegal aliens from a national health care program.”

The cost of treating illegal aliens amounts to nearly $11 billion a year,
according to calculations done by the Federation for American Immigration
Reform (FAIR), a non-profit group that opposes illegal immigration. And that
cost is not expected to go away if a health insurance reform bill becomes law.

According to FAIR’s Director of Special Projects Jack Martin, illegal
immigrants presently cost U. S. taxpayers $10.7 billion a year for health care.
The numbers are contained in a report that FAIR plans to publish in the near
future.

“The current health care bill is looking as if it is leaving a very large
loophole for medical coverage being provided to illegal aliens,” Martin said.

So again, yes, the speaker of the House can say: "We've made no provision
for Health Care for Illegal Aliens". But, is she in fact telling you the
WHOLE truth or only half a truth. I am an independent voter and I, at this
point, have my opinion. You be the judge for your own opinion.

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The politics of Healthcare Reform

from the AP -

"Immigration analyst James R. Edwards Jr. reported last week in National
Review that "no health legislation on the table requires federal, state or
local agencies -- or private institutions receiving federal funds -- to check
the immigration status of health-program applicants, so some of the money
distributed via Medicaid and tax credits inevitably would go to illegal
aliens." Moreover, the Senate Finance Committee plan creates a preference
for illegal aliens by exempting them from the mandate to buy insurance.

That's right. Lawabiding, uninsured Americans would be fined if they didn't
submit to the ObamaCare prescription.

Lawbreaking bordercrossers and deportation fugitives would be spared.

For years, advocates of uncontrolled immigration have argued that illegals
aren't getting free health care, and that even if they were, they'd not be
draining government budgets. The fiscal crisis in California gives lie to those
talking points. In March, the Associated Press reported that Sacramento and
Contra Costa counties were slashing staff and closing clinics due to the
prohibitive costs of providing nonemergency health services for illegals.

"The general situation there is being faced by nearly every health
department across the country, and if not right now, shortly," Robert M.
Pestronk of the National Association of County and City Health Officials, told
the AP."